Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] will humans be replaced

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I always thought it'd be interesting to use tiny tessers (or whatever you
like to call them for this exercise) to transmit data directly to any
point across any distance instantly. You wouldn't even need to master it
well enough to travel through the distortion. You'd just have to be able
to send some recognizable data pattern. Now that would be awesome. Even as
nutty as I am though I count that as being something I'll not likely see
in my lifetime. The first person to figure it out though would probably be
rich beyond their wildest dreams. You could cut the telco and the need for
routers etc completely out of networking and get higher speeds than
anything possibly even with optics. :)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.kavlon.com

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> Anti-matter is not the key to travelling across this universe. Too much
> Star Trek has distored people's ideas of space travel. Photon propellant
> would be efficent if we had anti-matter, which is naturally abundant in
> our universe. However, we have to make it, which requires a lot of effort
> and energy.
> 
> The key to successful long distance travel is magnetics. Magnetic fields
> could, one day, allow us to open up holes between two points in space and
> simply jump between them. This topic can be found in many Sci-Fi books,
> most notably _A Wrinkle in Time_. They called it a tesseract. "Event
> Horizon" also discussed this topic.
> 
> Traveling in a straight line is inefficent and a horrific waste of
> resources. We don't even know for sure if matter can go faster than the
> speed of light. I'm not a physist, though.

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